Clothes-pin.



l. J. ATKINS.

CLOTHES PIN.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 21,1918.

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7 Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed July 27, 1918. Serial No. 247,006.

ToalZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRVING J; ATKINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Pins, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to clothes pins, and particularly to spring clot-hes pins.

The general objectof the invention is to pin of a single length of wire so bent as to provide spring actuated jaws, and a shank having an eye at its upper end whereby the pins may be readily assembled upon a carrylng ring.

J A further object is to so form the clothes The lower end of this pin that it may be readily and cheaply made. Other objects will appear in the course of .the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accom p-anying drawing? Figure 1 is a pin constructed in accordance with my invention; and

Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Referring to these drawings, it will be seen that my improved clothes in comprises a length of wire 10, which inltiallyis bent at its middle so as to provide strands. The two strands are then again bent at 11 around a pin or'other form and then the four strands thus formed are twisted together, as at 12, to provide a relatively rigid-shank below the eye. The bight of the wire below this rigid twisted shank 1s formed into an elongated oval to provide a jaw 13. jaw 13 is outwardly deflected. The middle portion of this jaw is also slightly deflected as at 14. The opposing jaw consists of the two strands of wherein "wire which are disposed parallel to each other and between the two, strands of the wire formin the loopn13 land the middle portion of t is jaw is outwardly. deflected as at 15'while the lowerend nt elevation ofa clothes" tending legs,

middle to provide four parallel strands of two legs or wire, the bight formed b the first named.

being deflected away from of this jaw It will be seen that a clothes pin constructed as above described may be very cheaply made, that because of the twisting of the four strands of wire at the point 12, the shank of the pin is made relatively rigid and strong so that the in will withstand hard usage and not be nt out of shape. The eye 11 permits the clothes pins to be strung upon the large open loop of wire so that the clothes pins may be very easily handled. Inasmuch as the pin which is more or less resilient, the jaws will have their'resilient clamping. action when engagedover the clothes and on a line.

I claim 1. A clothes pin formed from a single length of wire,

tween the eye and the jaws being twisted upon each other to provlde a shank. 2. A clothes pin length of wire thelength of wire being bent at its middle 'to provide longitudinally exsaid legs being bent at their formed from a single is made of wire bend constituting a loop-s aped jaw and the ends of the strands opposite the bight forming an o posing jaw less in width than the width 0 the loop, that portion of the wire at the second named bend being formed to provide an eye and the strands of wire between said eye and the jaws being twisted in one direction to provi e a shank, the jaws each other at the middle of the jaws and at the endsoi the jaws In testimony signature in the presence of two witnesses. IRVING J. ATKINS. Witnesses n. McMnttaa, a J. W. Jamaican.

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